synonyms - Is there a term for meltable? - English Language Usage . . . Yes, there is: the term for “meltable” is of course meltable As John Lawler observed in a comment: Since we all understand what it means (linguists would say that meltable is "compositional", in that you can figure out the meaning of the word from the parts composing it), it IS a word
Word to describe things that have a tendency to melt? The single word is, as Josh61 points out: meltable It's not easy IMO to run a single word through an Ngram up against several other phrases and not have it completely blow the scale From this I deduce that just like you, others are willing to word at great length in order to avoid using it In short, no single word for you
meaning - Flammable versus Combustible - English Language Usage . . . Moi aussi I see some irony in the fact that the NFPA, which is widely credited with having spearheaded the movement to popularize flammable in the 1920s (see the entry for flammable inflammable in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage [1994]), is now having trouble getting the U S public to understand the degree of danger that it intends the term Flammable to convey